European Testing Week is an European campaign that encourages partner organisations—in community, health care and policy institutions-- throughout Europe to unite for one week twice a year to increase testing efforts and promote awareness on the benefits of earlier hepatitis and HIV testing. This initiative has progressed since its start in 2013 and has grown to be a widely recognised European event with hundreds of organisations participating every year. What once started as an annual event has now become a biannual event with two ETWs occurring each year in Spring (May) and Autumn (November). Each organisation volunteers their own time to organise their Testing Week activities and create incredible displays of a united effort to increase testing awareness at all organisational levels.

Now in its seventh year, the European Testing Week initiative held its second Spring European Testing Week from 17-24 May 2019. The Autumn campaign will take place 22-29 November 2019.

The aim of the Spring and Autumn ETWs remain the same: to unite partner organisations throughout Europe for one week to increase access to testing and promote awareness on the benefits of earlier hepatitis and HIV testing.

Are you interested in joining the campaign? Then click the green ‘Sign-up here’ button below and register your organisation!

Not sure where to start? Check out our Success Stories page of past ETW partner’s activities. You can also check out our Materials page to help get you started and thinking about how you would like to participate.

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We are happy to announce that the theme for the November 2019 #EuroTestWeek will emphasise the importance of integrated testing of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and sexually transmitted infections (when possible), as well as other related activities focused on increased awareness and access to testing and treatment, highlighting the importance of ETW’s longstanding tagline of Test.Treat.Prevent

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27 May 2019: THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

The European Testing Week Working Group would like to express their biggest THANKS to everyone who signed up and participated in Spring ETW 2019.

Similar to past ETWs, we ask you to please complete the post-Spring ETW 2019 Evaluation survey. Your feedback is very important to us. The survey format has been shortened from previous years and reformatted into two parts to help you with completion.

Even if you did not participate in Spring ETW 2019, please complete PART ONE of the survey.

You can access the survey here: https://is.gd/2019SpringETW

Deadline to complete the survey is 21 June 2019.

21 May 2019: THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who was able to join the webinars today! If you haven't already, we kindly ask you to complete a very short questionnaire to provide us with feedback!

The 2019 Spring European Testing Week officially starts today and runs until next Friday the 24th of May!

To help launch the start of the week, the ETW Working Group has released a statement on testing in prisons and closed settings. European Testing Week calls for a scale-up and the active offer of voluntary and confidential testing for HIV, hepatitis B and C to be prioritised for all people in prisons and other closed settings.

Results from the Feedback Survey

During August 2018, we conducted a brief five question survey asking #EuroTestWeek participants to provide insight on their interests for #EuroTestWeek 2018 including questions on key groups, new ideas, support from the ETW Working Group and other focus areas.

European Testing Week

Testing week offers partners across Europe the opportunity to unite for one week to increase awareness of the benefits of HIV and hepatitis testing. European Testing Week supports testing activities throughout the year.

To find out where you can have a test for HIV, hepatitis or other sexually transmitted infections across Europe use the European Test Finder.

Organisations and institutions that support European Testing Week

Some of the largest international and pan-European organisations and institutions have demonstrated their support for the testing week. See full list».

ECDC welcomes the efforts of European Testing Week to increase positive dialogue among those who ought to be tested for HIV and viral hepatitis and those who offer tests across Europe, in line with the ECDC Guidance on HIV testing.

Sponsorship statement: The EuroTEST initiative is governed by an independent steering committee. The Coordinating Centre is at CHIP, RegionH, Copenhagen, and the political secretariat at the EATG. The conditions of funding the initiative are approved by the Steering Committee. Industry sponsors are invited to quarterly updates but do not participate in the Steering Committee.

Financial support of the EuroTEST initiative provided by: Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Danish National Research Foundation (grant 126), European Commission under the 3rd and 2nd Health Programmes, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Swedish Research Council, ViiV Healthcare and Tibotec.

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